Totals are in from the first day of early voting

More than 5,000 people showed up to vote early in person on Monday, and another 8,560 returned mail ballots.

Mayor Annise Parker and top challenger Ben Hall made the rounds as voting started in Houston’s mayoral and down-ballot city contests, but voters also turned out for school board races, state constitutional amendments and two high-profile local projects, a renovation of the Astrodome and a long-discussed city-county inmate processing center.

Here are the totals from Monday, showing 5,025 total in-person votes. For a listing of all early voting locations countywide and their hours of operation, click here. For a sample ballot, visit the County Clerk’s website.

The top early-voting locations were the Metropolitan Multi-Service Center on West Gray (540), the Fiesta Mart at Kirby and the South Loop (286), Bayland Park Community Center in southwest Houston (263), and Trini Mendenhall Sosa Community Center in the Spring Branch area (256).